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noun

• That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.

  Example: moral absolutes

• Anything that is absolute.

• In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

• (usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.

• (usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.

• (usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.

• A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.

adjective

• Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

  Example: 1658, Samuel Hoard, God[']s Love to Mankind, Manifested, by disprooving his absolute decree for their damnation

• Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.

  Example: absolute purity, absolute liberty

• Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

  Example: absolute alcohol

• Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.

  Example: When caught, he told an absolute lie.   an absolute denial of all charges

• Positive, certain; unquestionable.

• Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).

• Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.

  Example: Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.

• Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

  Example: absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position

• (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".

• As measured using an absolute value.

  Example: absolute deviation

• Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.

• Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.

• Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.

  Example: absolute music

• Absolved; free.